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+-/*! @mainpage Reference Guide
+
+WiredTiger is an high performance, scalable, production quality, NoSQL,
+Open Source extensible platform for data management.
+
+WiredTiger supports both traditional row-oriented storage, where all
+columns of a row are stored together, and column-oriented storage, where
+one or more columns can be stored individually, allowing more efficient
+access and storage.
+
+For more information on the WiredTiger architecture and why it might be
+right for your project, see:
+
+- @subpage architecture.
+
+This documentation describes the programming interface to WiredTiger
+used by developers to construct applications. We follow SQL
+terminology: a database is set of tables managed together. Tables
+consist of rows, where each row is a key and its associated value.
+Tables may optionally have an associated schema, splitting the value
+into a set of columns. Tables may also have associated indices, each
+of which is ordered by one or more columns.
+
+WiredTiger distributions are tested on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
+WiredTiger should be portable to any system that supports the ANSI C99,
+POSIX 1003.1 and POSIX 1003.1c (threads extension) standards.
+
+For more information about using WiredTiger, see:
+
+- @subpage install\n
+
+- @subpage using\n
+
+- @ref wt "WiredTiger API reference manual"
+
+- @subpage command_line\n
+
+To browse or download the WiredTiger source code, visit our
+
+- <a href="https://github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger"><b>Project page</b></a>
+
+To ask questions or discuss issues related to using WiredTiger, visit our
+
+- <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/wiredtiger-users"><b>User Group</b></a>
+
+*/